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Our yearly Mary Bailey basketball tournament is currently underway.
Sixth Class took part in play off semi finals and finals and had a great time participating in the competition . The finals were very exciting and enjoyed by the whole school.
This years winning teams were The Teletubbies and the Ghandis Minions! Well done to all that participated!
We celebrated wonderful 40 years of Mr O Brien in our school. He has brought so much kindness and compassion to our students. His love of Gaelic Games has had such a positive impact on our school along with his passion for exploring nature, gardening and using the environment and the children’s interests to support their learning. Thank you for everything you have done for our school
Today was Tommy's last day with us. Tommy is an amazing man who is well loved and respected by every member of our school community. He has taught all the children GAA skills throughout the year and they have come on so much throughout the year. Thanks so much for all your hard work Tommy.
We also say a fond farewell to Sofiia, our teacher from Ukraine. Sofiia has been such a wonderful support to the students who arrived this year from Ukraine and to the class teachers working with these students. We were so lucky to have you this year and we wish you well on your next adventure.
We were lucky enough for Wobble Circus to come to our school and visit 1st Class and 5th Class. The children got to explore with diablos, hat tricks, juggling, spinning plates, hoola hoops, feather wands and even got to go on the tightrope. We really enjoyed getting our creative juices flowing in a whole new way
The children took part in our sports day on Friday 9th June. There were lots of races, activities and games taking place. Both children and staff had a fun filled day!
Bhí spórt agus spraoi ag gach duine sa scoil don Seachtain na Gaeilge!
Everyone in the school had great fun for Seactain na Gaeilge 2023 or should we say Coicís na Gaeilge as it really goes on for two weeks now. We have all been so busy and the children, as always made a huge effort to speak as Gaeilge throughout the school days. We had a huge raifil on the last day. Children earned as many ticéid as they could by speaking Gaeilge each day and the tickets all went into a big box for the raifil.
Each class took part in a Ceilí and once again were paired up with another class. The younger and older children mixed so well together.
But apart from all of these organised events, each teacher and class did lots of their own activities to embrace our Irish culture, be it amhráin, rainn, dánta nó damhsaí.
Have a look at some of the things that have been going on below.
To top it all off, we had a Lá Glas last Thursday 16ú Márta and a whoe school assembly where children performed Irish dancing, tin whistle, songs and even The Haca Gaelach!
Prizes were awarded from the raifil and one child in each class was given an award for Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine. It was a great day and some children even commented it was their favourite day of the year in St Fergal’s and many of the teachers would agree!
We have so many great events in St Fergal’s throughout the year but this is the day that we really get to celebrate our rich culture and heritage and everyone in the school really embraces it each year.
We are already looking forward to Seachtain na Gaeilge 2024!
We had a great time for World Book Day this year. Our Book Fair was back for the first time since Covid so everyone was really delighted about that and lots of children bought new books to read.
We held an art competition. Each child was asked to design a book cover and the winning child from each class got to chooses a book for free.
We also paired a junior and senior class together for paired reading and the children really enjoyed the experience. It is such a joy to see the older children interacting with the younger ones.
For the first time ever St Fergal’s School took part in an amazing cross border event called Peace Proms. The three 5th classes have been learning lots of songs and actions since September, to take part in a choir with hundreds of other schools. They went along to the RDS on Saturday 4th February and joined over a 1000 children from other schools to form the Peace Proms Choir. They were accompanied by a real symphony orchestra, professional singers, dancers and musicians. It was a goose bump moment for the children and teachers and we are just so proud of how well they represented the school. It was a once in a lifetime experience for the children and we intend to make it an annual event here at St Fergal’s.
We had great fun last week doing our annual Art For All Day. Every class in the whole school participated and by the end of the day the teachers were worn out and the children were covered in paint, clay, glue, wool and any other amount of art materials but each child had at least three pieces of Christmas themed artwork to show for it. It is always a highlight in the St Fergal’s School Calendar each year and it gets us all in the Christmas mood! Here are some pictures from the day.
We had a fabulous day on Monday last for our annual Sports day. This has been the first time we did the real thing because of Covid in a long time! Finally it has happened. Well done to all of our helpers , supporters and children for making this day so much fun,. The energy from the children was infectious. Please see photos below for a snippet of what took place,
The children from 1st to 6th had great fun today taking part in our annual quiz. It’s been a long two years since our last quiz but it didn’t take long for everyone to get back into the swing of things. Have a look at some pictures from the day below.
It was so great to get back to some of our old activities again this year for World Book Day. The 6th and 1st classes really enjoyed coming together to read with each other!
Congratulations to all of the children who participated in the meal planner competition for ‘Be well Month’.
look below to see the winners!
Tasters of the Tadhgs’ Special Smoothies.
Yummy!’
Alannah Conway visited our school on Monday 7th February bringing with her the winning cup from their win over Antrim.
The whole school gathered to share in her victory in the school yard and made a guard of honour for her ,wearing their Fearghal Og Jerseys. Many thanks to Ms Flynn’s 3rd class for their fabulous banner and to Mr O Brien and Ms Scanlon ( proud mother of Alannah) for organising the visit. Thank you Alannah for being a great role model for all of these budding sports people! We were delighted with your visit!
Last week RTE cameras came in to film everyone in the school taking part in our annual Art For All Day. Micheál the reporter was accompanied by Micheál the camera man. They were so professional and friendly and they really made all of the children feel comfortable and safe in front of the camera. As soon as they left St Fergal’s, they headed back to RTE to edit their work and we were delighted to find out that the show would be airing that very evening at 4:20pm on RTE 2. A big thanks to the RTE News2Day for taking the time to visit our school.
We are so proud of all the children that took part, but specially those that were interviewed and represented our school so well.
Why not click on the link below to watch the report and have a look at some of the amazing art produced on the day! Below the link you can also see some pictures of the fantastic artwork. The children of St Fergal’s NS really are so talented!!!
Well done everyone!
This week we kicked off Be well month with a week’s activities about ‘Healthy Eating’. Take a look below at Ms Farrell’s senior Infants doing some Fruit Tasting. Next week we will Drop Everything and Boogie as Healthy Body week takes place during our big break yard time.
A zoom assembly was held on Thursday 17th December to congratulate Ms Carroll on her new Role as Principal in St Anne’s school. We wish her the very best after serving 20 years in St Fergals she will be sadly missed!
Today we styled our Sock Monsters hair!
2nd Class - Ms Brady
